Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] ' [noun] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
| 2 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 3 | In a few months ' time I will take my G.C.S.E. ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) . |
| 4 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 5 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 6 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 7 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
| 8 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 9 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 10 | From the appearance of most students ' notes one would assume that there is a continuing strike in the paper-making industry . |